Recommendations with IBM

In this notebook, you will be putting your recommendation skills to use on real data from the IBM Watson Studio platform.

You may either submit your notebook through the workspace here, or you may work from your local machine and submit through the next page. Either way assure that your code passes the project RUBRIC. Please save regularly.

By following the table of contents, you will build out a number of different methods for making recommendations that can be used for different situations.

Table of Contents

I. Exploratory Data Analysis
II. Rank Based Recommendations
III. User-User Based Collaborative Filtering
IV. Content Based Recommendations (EXTRA - NOT REQUIRED)
V. Matrix Factorization
VI. Extras & Concluding

At the end of the notebook, you will find directions for how to submit your work. Let's get started by importing the necessary libraries and reading in the data.

from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import project_tests as t
import pickle
import seaborn as sns
import plotly.graph_objects as go

%matplotlib inline

df = pd.read_csv('data/user-item-interactions.csv')
df_content = pd.read_csv('data/articles_community.csv')
del df['Unnamed: 0']
del df_content['Unnamed: 0']

# Show df to get an idea of the data
df.head()

	article_id	title	email
0	1430.0	using pixiedust for fast, flexible, and easier...	ef5f11f77ba020cd36e1105a00ab868bbdbf7fe7
1	1314.0	healthcare python streaming application demo	083cbdfa93c8444beaa4c5f5e0f5f9198e4f9e0b
2	1429.0	use deep learning for image classification	b96a4f2e92d8572034b1e9b28f9ac673765cd074
3	1338.0	ml optimization using cognitive assistant	06485706b34a5c9bf2a0ecdac41daf7e7654ceb7
4	1276.0	deploy your python model as a restful api	f01220c46fc92c6e6b161b1849de11faacd7ccb2

# Show df_content to get an idea of the data
df_content.head()

	doc_body	doc_description	doc_full_name	doc_status	article_id
0	Skip navigation Sign in SearchLoading...\r\n\r...	Detect bad readings in real time using Python ...	Detect Malfunctioning IoT Sensors with Streami...	Live	0
1	No Free Hunch Navigation * kaggle.com\r\n\r\n ...	See the forest, see the trees. Here lies the c...	Communicating data science: A guide to present...	Live	1
2	☰ * Login\r\n * Sign Up\r\n\r\n * Learning Pat...	Here’s this week’s news in Data Science and Bi...	This Week in Data Science (April 18, 2017)	Live	2
3	DATALAYER: HIGH THROUGHPUT, LOW LATENCY AT SCA...	Learn how distributed DBs solve the problem of...	DataLayer Conference: Boost the performance of...	Live	3
4	Skip navigation Sign in SearchLoading...\r\n\r...	This video demonstrates the power of IBM DataS...	Analyze NY Restaurant data using Spark in DSX	Live	4

Part I : Exploratory Data Analysis

Use the dictionary and cells below to provide some insight into the descriptive statistics of the data.

1. What is the distribution of how many articles a user interacts with in the dataset? Provide a visual and descriptive statistics to assist with giving a look at the number of times each user interacts with an article.

group_dist = df.email.value_counts()
print(group_dist)

2b6c0f514c2f2b04ad3c4583407dccd0810469ee    364
77959baaa9895a7e2bdc9297f8b27c1b6f2cb52a    363
2f5c7feae533ce046f2cb16fb3a29fe00528ed66    170
a37adec71b667b297ed2440a9ff7dad427c7ac85    169
8510a5010a5d4c89f5b07baac6de80cd12cfaf93    160
                                           ... 
80d81b6a40a5f9dcf91d3ed44484dd239d10d44c      1
a96fd739f20c03a03f9df4181cb1748147a45346      1
2905757baf2f48942e47e46da6ef3d37b15f647d      1
f388c24c91a72bb4d947421e34117bf13898b71e      1
a105ee1b0002a70d1786c33f9cd92a4e39e501a9      1
Name: email, Length: 5148, dtype: int64

trace = go.Histogram(x=group_dist)
layout = go.Layout(title="distribution", legend=dict(x=0.1, y=1.1, orientation="h"))
fig = go.Figure(data=[trace],layout=layout)
fig

group_dist.describe()

count    5148.000000
mean        8.930847
std        16.802267
min         1.000000
25%         1.000000
50%         3.000000
75%         9.000000
max       364.000000
Name: email, dtype: float64

# Fill in the median and maximum number of user_article interactios below

median_val = 3 # 50% of individuals interact with ____ number of articles or fewer.
max_views_by_user = 364 # The maximum number of user-article interactions by any 1 user is ______.

2. Explore and remove duplicate articles from the df_content dataframe.

# Find and explore duplicate articles
article_count = df_content.article_id.value_counts()
print(article_count[article_count>1])

221    2
232    2
577    2
398    2
50     2
Name: article_id, dtype: int64

# Remove any rows that have the same article_id - only keep the first
df_content.drop_duplicates(subset=['article_id'],keep = 'first', inplace = True)

3. Use the cells below to find:

a. The number of unique articles that have an interaction with a user.
b. The number of unique articles in the dataset (whether they have any interactions or not).
c. The number of unique users in the dataset. (excluding null values)
d. The number of user-article interactions in the dataset.

df.groupby(['article_id'])['email'].nunique()

article_id
0.0       12
2.0       44
4.0       13
8.0       82
9.0       10
          ..
1440.0     8
1441.0     6
1442.0     4
1443.0    12
1444.0     5
Name: email, Length: 714, dtype: int64

df_content['article_id'].count()

1051

df['email'].nunique()

5148

df.shape

(45993, 3)

unique_articles = 714 # The number of unique articles that have at least one interaction
total_articles = 1051 # The number of unique articles on the IBM platform
unique_users = 5148 # The number of unique users
user_article_interactions = 45993 # The number of user-article interactions

4. Use the cells below to find the most viewed article_id, as well as how often it was viewed. After talking to the company leaders, the email_mapper function was deemed a reasonable way to map users to ids. There were a small number of null values, and it was found that all of these null values likely belonged to a single user (which is how they are stored using the function below).

df['article_id'].value_counts().head()

1429.0    937
1330.0    927
1431.0    671
1427.0    643
1364.0    627
Name: article_id, dtype: int64

most_viewed_article_id = "1429.0" # The most viewed article in the dataset as a string with one value following the decimal 
max_views = 937 # The most viewed article in the dataset was viewed how many times?

## No need to change the code here - this will be helpful for later parts of the notebook
# Run this cell to map the user email to a user_id column and remove the email column

def email_mapper():
    coded_dict = dict()
    cter = 1
    email_encoded = []
    
    for val in df['email']:
        if val not in coded_dict:
            coded_dict[val] = cter
            cter+=1
        
        email_encoded.append(coded_dict[val])
    return email_encoded

email_encoded = email_mapper()
del df['email']
df['user_id'] = email_encoded

# show header
df.head()

	article_id	title	user_id
0	1430.0	using pixiedust for fast, flexible, and easier...	1
1	1314.0	healthcare python streaming application demo	2
2	1429.0	use deep learning for image classification	3
3	1338.0	ml optimization using cognitive assistant	4
4	1276.0	deploy your python model as a restful api	5

## If you stored all your results in the variable names above, 
## you shouldn't need to change anything in this cell

sol_1_dict = {
    '`50% of individuals have _____ or fewer interactions.`': median_val,
    '`The total number of user-article interactions in the dataset is ______.`': user_article_interactions,
    '`The maximum number of user-article interactions by any 1 user is ______.`': max_views_by_user,
    '`The most viewed article in the dataset was viewed _____ times.`': max_views,
    '`The article_id of the most viewed article is ______.`': most_viewed_article_id,
    '`The number of unique articles that have at least 1 rating ______.`': unique_articles,
    '`The number of unique users in the dataset is ______`': unique_users,
    '`The number of unique articles on the IBM platform`': total_articles
}

# Test your dictionary against the solution
t.sol_1_test(sol_1_dict)

It looks like you have everything right here! Nice job!

Part II: Rank-Based Recommendations

Unlike in the earlier lessons, we don't actually have ratings for whether a user liked an article or not. We only know that a user has interacted with an article. In these cases, the popularity of an article can really only be based on how often an article was interacted with.

1. Fill in the function below to return the n top articles ordered with most interactions as the top. Test your function using the tests below.

df[df['article_id']==1429]['title'].iloc[0]

'use deep learning for image classification'

def get_top_articles(n, df=df):
    '''
    INPUT:
    n - (int) the number of top articles to return
    df - (pandas dataframe) df as defined at the top of the notebook 
    
    OUTPUT:
    top_articles - (list) A list of the top 'n' article titles 
    
    '''
    article_ids = df.article_id.value_counts().index[:n]
    top_articles = []
    
    for art_id in article_ids:
        title = df[df['article_id']==art_id]['title'].iloc[0]
        top_articles.append(title)
    
    return top_articles # Return the top article titles from df (not df_content)

def get_top_article_ids(n, df=df):
    '''
    INPUT:
    n - (int) the number of top articles to return
    df - (pandas dataframe) df as defined at the top of the notebook 
    
    OUTPUT:
    top_articles - (list) A list of the top 'n' article titles 
    
    '''
    top_articles = df.article_id.value_counts().index[:n].tolist()
 
    return top_articles # Return the top article ids

print(get_top_articles(10))
print(get_top_article_ids(10))

['use deep learning for image classification', 'insights from new york car accident reports', 'visualize car data with brunel', 'use xgboost, scikit-learn & ibm watson machine learning apis', 'predicting churn with the spss random tree algorithm', 'healthcare python streaming application demo', 'finding optimal locations of new store using decision optimization', 'apache spark lab, part 1: basic concepts', 'analyze energy consumption in buildings', 'gosales transactions for logistic regression model']
[1429.0, 1330.0, 1431.0, 1427.0, 1364.0, 1314.0, 1293.0, 1170.0, 1162.0, 1304.0]

# Test your function by returning the top 5, 10, and 20 articles
top_5 = get_top_articles(5)
top_10 = get_top_articles(10)
top_20 = get_top_articles(20)

# Test each of your three lists from above
t.sol_2_test(get_top_articles)

Your top_5 looks like the solution list! Nice job.
Your top_10 looks like the solution list! Nice job.
Your top_20 looks like the solution list! Nice job.

Part III: User-User Based Collaborative Filtering

1. Use the function below to reformat the df dataframe to be shaped with users as the rows and articles as the columns.

• Each user should only appear in each row once.

• Each article should only show up in one column.

• If a user has interacted with an article, then place a 1 where the user-row meets for that article-column. It does not matter how many times a user has interacted with the article, all entries where a user has interacted with an article should be a 1.

• If a user has not interacted with an item, then place a zero where the user-row meets for that article-column.

Use the tests to make sure the basic structure of your matrix matches what is expected by the solution.

# create the user-article matrix with 1's and 0's

def create_user_item_matrix(df):
    '''
    INPUT:
    df - pandas dataframe with article_id, title, user_id columns
    
    OUTPUT:
    user_item - user item matrix
    
    
    Description:
    Return a matrix with user ids as rows and article ids on the columns with 1 values where a user interacted with 
    an article and a 0 otherwise
    '''
    # Fill in the function here
    user_item = df.groupby(['user_id','article_id'])['title'].count().unstack().fillna(0)
    user_item[user_item>0] = 1
    
    return user_item # return the user_item matrix 

user_item = create_user_item_matrix(df)

## Tests: You should just need to run this cell.  Don't change the code.
assert user_item.shape[0] == 5149, "Oops!  The number of users in the user-article matrix doesn't look right."
assert user_item.shape[1] == 714, "Oops!  The number of articles in the user-article matrix doesn't look right."
assert user_item.sum(axis=1)[1] == 36, "Oops!  The number of articles seen by user 1 doesn't look right."
print("You have passed our quick tests!  Please proceed!")

You have passed our quick tests!  Please proceed!

2. Complete the function below which should take a user_id and provide an ordered list of the most similar users to that user (from most similar to least similar). The returned result should not contain the provided user_id, as we know that each user is similar to him/herself. Because the results for each user here are binary, it (perhaps) makes sense to compute similarity as the dot product of two users.

Use the tests to test your function.

def find_similar_users(user_id, user_item=user_item):
    '''
    INPUT:
    user_id - (int) a user_id
    user_item - (pandas dataframe) matrix of users by articles: 
                1's when a user has interacted with an article, 0 otherwise
    
    OUTPUT:
    similar_users - (list) an ordered list where the closest users (largest dot product users)
                    are listed first
    
    Description:
    Computes the similarity of every pair of users based on the dot product
    Returns an ordered
    '''
    # compute similarity of each user to the provided user
    user1 = user_item[user_item.index == user_id]
    sim_users = user1.dot(user_item.T)
    # sort by similarity
    most_similar_users = sim_users.sort_values(user_id,axis=1, ascending=False).columns.tolist()
    # create list of just the ids
    
    # remove the own user's id
    most_similar_users.remove(user_id)
    return most_similar_users # return a list of the users in order from most to least similar

user1 = user_item[user_item.index == 10]
sim_users = user1.dot(user_item.T)
sim_users.values

array([[7., 4., 5., ..., 0., 0., 0.]])

# Do a spot check of your function
print("The 10 most similar users to user 1 are: {}".format(find_similar_users(1)[:10]))
print("The 5 most similar users to user 3933 are: {}".format(find_similar_users(3933)[:5]))
print("The 3 most similar users to user 46 are: {}".format(find_similar_users(46)[:3]))

The 10 most similar users to user 1 are: [3933, 23, 3782, 203, 4459, 3870, 131, 4201, 46, 5041]
The 5 most similar users to user 3933 are: [1, 23, 3782, 203, 4459]
The 3 most similar users to user 46 are: [4201, 3782, 23]

3. Now that you have a function that provides the most similar users to each user, you will want to use these users to find articles you can recommend. Complete the functions below to return the articles you would recommend to each user.

def get_article_names(article_ids, df=df):
    '''
    INPUT:
    article_ids - (list) a list of article ids
    df - (pandas dataframe) df as defined at the top of the notebook
    
    OUTPUT:
    article_names - (list) a list of article names associated with the list of article ids 
                    (this is identified by the title column)
    '''
    # Your code here
    article_names = df[df['article_id'].isin(article_ids)]['title'].drop_duplicates().values.tolist()
    
    return article_names # Return the article names associated with list of article ids


def get_user_articles(user_id, user_item=user_item):
    '''
    INPUT:
    user_id - (int) a user id
    user_item - (pandas dataframe) matrix of users by articles: 
                1's when a user has interacted with an article, 0 otherwise
    
    OUTPUT:
    article_ids - (list) a list of the article ids seen by the user
    article_names - (list) a list of article names associated with the list of article ids 
                    (this is identified by the doc_full_name column in df_content)
    
    Description:
    Provides a list of the article_ids and article titles that have been seen by a user
    '''
    # Your code here
    article_ids = user_item.loc[user_id][user_item.loc[user_id]==1].index.tolist()

    article_names = get_article_names(article_ids, df=df)
    
    article_ids = [str(x) for x in article_ids]

    return article_ids, article_names # return the ids and names


def user_user_recs(user_id, m=10):
    '''
    INPUT:
    user_id - (int) a user id
    m - (int) the number of recommendations you want for the user
    
    OUTPUT:
    recs - (list) a list of recommendations for the user
    
    Description:
    Loops through the users based on closeness to the input user_id
    For each user - finds articles the user hasn't seen before and provides them as recs
    Does this until m recommendations are found
    
    Notes:
    Users who are the same closeness are chosen arbitrarily as the 'next' user
    
    For the user where the number of recommended articles starts below m 
    and ends exceeding m, the last items are chosen arbitrarily
    
    '''
    # Your code here
    recs = []
    most_similar_user = find_similar_users(user_id)
    viewed_article_ids, viewed_article_names = get_user_articles(user_id)
    
    for user in most_similar_user:
        article_ids, article_names = get_user_articles(user)
        article_not_viewed = np.setdiff1d(np.array(article_ids), np.array(viewed_article_ids))
        articles_to_rec = np.setdiff1d(np.array(article_not_viewed), np.array(recs))
        recs.extend(list(articles_to_rec))
        if len(recs)>m:
            break;
    
    return recs[:m] # return your recommendations for this user_id    

# Check Results
get_article_names(user_user_recs(1, 10)) # Return 10 recommendations for user 1

['analyze energy consumption in buildings',
 'analyze accident reports on amazon emr spark',
 '520    using notebooks with pixiedust for fast, flexi...\nName: title, dtype: object',
 '1448    i ranked every intro to data science course on...\nName: title, dtype: object',
 'data tidying in data science experience',
 'airbnb data for analytics: vancouver listings',
 'recommender systems: approaches & algorithms',
 'airbnb data for analytics: mallorca reviews',
 'analyze facebook data using ibm watson and watson studio',
 'a tensorflow regression model to predict house values']

# Test your functions here - No need to change this code - just run this cell
assert set(get_article_names(['1024.0', '1176.0', '1305.0', '1314.0', '1422.0', '1427.0'])) == set(['using deep learning to reconstruct high-resolution audio', 'build a python app on the streaming analytics service', 'gosales transactions for naive bayes model', 'healthcare python streaming application demo', 'use r dataframes & ibm watson natural language understanding', 'use xgboost, scikit-learn & ibm watson machine learning apis']), "Oops! Your the get_article_names function doesn't work quite how we expect."
assert set(get_article_names(['1320.0', '232.0', '844.0'])) == set(['housing (2015): united states demographic measures','self-service data preparation with ibm data refinery','use the cloudant-spark connector in python notebook']), "Oops! Your the get_article_names function doesn't work quite how we expect."
assert set(get_user_articles(20)[0]) == set(['1320.0', '232.0', '844.0'])
assert set(get_user_articles(20)[1]) == set(['housing (2015): united states demographic measures', 'self-service data preparation with ibm data refinery','use the cloudant-spark connector in python notebook'])
assert set(get_user_articles(2)[0]) == set(['1024.0', '1176.0', '1305.0', '1314.0', '1422.0', '1427.0'])
assert set(get_user_articles(2)[1]) == set(['using deep learning to reconstruct high-resolution audio', 'build a python app on the streaming analytics service', 'gosales transactions for naive bayes model', 'healthcare python streaming application demo', 'use r dataframes & ibm watson natural language understanding', 'use xgboost, scikit-learn & ibm watson machine learning apis'])
print("If this is all you see, you passed all of our tests!  Nice job!")

If this is all you see, you passed all of our tests!  Nice job!

4. Now we are going to improve the consistency of the user_user_recs function from above.

• Instead of arbitrarily choosing when we obtain users who are all the same closeness to a given user - choose the users that have the most total article interactions before choosing those with fewer article interactions.

• Instead of arbitrarily choosing articles from the user where the number of recommended articles starts below m and ends exceeding m, choose articles with the articles with the most total interactions before choosing those with fewer total interactions. This ranking should be what would be obtained from the top_articles function you wrote earlier.

neighbor_id = list(user_item.index)
user1 = user_item[user_item.index == 10]
similarity = user1.dot(user_item.T).values
num_interactions = list(user_item.values.sum(axis=1))
print(similarity[0])
# print(len(neighbor_id),len(similarity),len(num_interactions))
neighbors_df = pd.DataFrame({'neighbor_id':neighbor_id,'similarity':similarity[0],'num_interactions':num_interactions})
# Your code here
neighbors_df = neighbors_df.sort_values(by=['similarity','num_interactions'],ascending= False)
neighbors_df[neighbors_df['neighbor_id']==10].index.values[0]
neighbors_df = neighbors_df.drop(9)
neighbors_df

[7. 4. 5. ... 0. 0. 0.]

	neighbor_id	similarity	num_interactions
3353	3354	17.0	17.0
48	49	15.0	101.0
3696	3697	15.0	100.0
97	98	14.0	97.0
3763	3764	14.0	97.0
...	...	...	...
5140	5141	0.0	1.0
5143	5144	0.0	1.0
5146	5147	0.0	1.0
5147	5148	0.0	1.0
5148	5149	0.0	1.0

5148 rows × 3 columns

def get_top_sorted_users(user_id, df=df, user_item=user_item):
    '''
    INPUT:
    user_id - (int)
    df - (pandas dataframe) df as defined at the top of the notebook 
    user_item - (pandas dataframe) matrix of users by articles: 
            1's when a user has interacted with an article, 0 otherwise
    
            
    OUTPUT:
    neighbors_df - (pandas dataframe) a dataframe with:
                    neighbor_id - is a neighbor user_id
                    similarity - measure of the similarity of each user to the provided user_id
                    num_interactions - the number of articles viewed by the user - if a u
                    
    Other Details - sort the neighbors_df by the similarity and then by number of interactions where 
                    highest of each is higher in the dataframe
     
    '''
    neighbor_id = list(user_item.index)
    user1 = user_item[user_item.index == user_id]
    similarity = user1.dot(user_item.T).values
    num_interactions = list(user_item.values.sum(axis=1))
    neighbors_df = pd.DataFrame({'neighbor_id':neighbor_id,'similarity':similarity[0],'num_interactions':num_interactions})
    # Your code here
    neighbors_df = neighbors_df.sort_values(by=['similarity','num_interactions'],ascending= False)
    index = neighbors_df[neighbors_df['neighbor_id']==user_id].index.values[0]
    neighbors_df = neighbors_df.drop(index)
    return neighbors_df # Return the dataframe specified in the doc_string


def user_user_recs_part2(user_id, m=10):
    '''
    INPUT:
    user_id - (int) a user id
    m - (int) the number of recommendations you want for the user
    
    OUTPUT:
    recs - (list) a list of recommendations for the user by article id
    rec_names - (list) a list of recommendations for the user by article title
    
    Description:
    Loops through the users based on closeness to the input user_id
    For each user - finds articles the user hasn't seen before and provides them as recs
    Does this until m recommendations are found
    
    Notes:
    * Choose the users that have the most total article interactions 
    before choosing those with fewer article interactions.

    * Choose articles with the articles with the most total interactions 
    before choosing those with fewer total interactions. 
   
    '''
    # Your code here
    recs = []
    most_similar_user = list(get_top_sorted_users(user_id).neighbor_id)
    viewed_article_ids, viewed_article_names = get_user_articles(user_id)
    
    for user in most_similar_user:
        article_ids, article_names = get_user_articles(user)
        article_not_viewed = np.setdiff1d(np.array(article_ids), np.array(viewed_article_ids))
        articles_to_rec = np.setdiff1d(np.array(article_not_viewed), np.array(recs))
        recs.extend(list(articles_to_rec))
        if len(recs)>m:
            break;
    
    recs = recs[:m]
    rec_names = get_article_names(recs)
    return recs, rec_names

# Quick spot check - don't change this code - just use it to test your functions
rec_ids, rec_names = user_user_recs_part2(20, 10)
print("The top 10 recommendations for user 20 are the following article ids:")
print(rec_ids)
print()
print("The top 10 recommendations for user 20 are the following article names:")
print(rec_names)

The top 10 recommendations for user 20 are the following article ids:
['1014.0', '1059.0', '109.0', '111.0', '1157.0', '1162.0', '1164.0', '1172.0', '1186.0', '12.0']

The top 10 recommendations for user 20 are the following article names:
['timeseries data analysis of iot events by using jupyter notebook', 'analyze energy consumption in buildings', 'analyze open data sets with pandas dataframes', 'apache spark lab, part 3: machine learning', 'airbnb data for analytics: washington d.c. listings', 'airbnb data for analytics: amsterdam calendar', 'tidy up your jupyter notebooks with scripts', 'tensorflow quick tips', '1448    i ranked every intro to data science course on...\nName: title, dtype: object', 'connect to db2 warehouse on cloud and db2 using scala']

get_top_sorted_users(131).head(20)

	neighbor_id	similarity	num_interactions
3869	3870	74.0	75.0
3781	3782	39.0	135.0
22	23	38.0	135.0
202	203	33.0	96.0
4458	4459	33.0	96.0
48	49	29.0	101.0
3696	3697	29.0	100.0
97	98	29.0	97.0
3763	3764	29.0	97.0
3909	3910	25.0	60.0
241	242	25.0	59.0
39	40	24.0	52.0
4931	4932	24.0	52.0
3739	3740	23.0	71.0
57	58	23.0	70.0
3595	3596	23.0	59.0
51	52	23.0	58.0
289	290	22.0	58.0
3539	3540	21.0	72.0
911	912	21.0	71.0

5. Use your functions from above to correctly fill in the solutions to the dictionary below. Then test your dictionary against the solution. Provide the code you need to answer each following the comments below.

print(get_top_sorted_users(1).neighbor_id.values[0],get_top_sorted_users(131).neighbor_id.values[10])

3933 242

### Tests with a dictionary of results

user1_most_sim = 3933 # Find the user that is most similar to user 1 
user131_10th_sim =242 # Find the 10th most similar user to user 131

## Dictionary Test Here
sol_5_dict = {
    'The user that is most similar to user 1.': user1_most_sim, 
    'The user that is the 10th most similar to user 131': user131_10th_sim,
}

t.sol_5_test(sol_5_dict)

This all looks good!  Nice job!

6. If we were given a new user, which of the above functions would you be able to use to make recommendations? Explain. Can you think of a better way we might make recommendations? Use the cell below to explain a better method for new users.

recc = df.article_id.value_counts().head(10).index.values.tolist()
recc = [str(x) for x in recc]
recc

['1429.0',
 '1330.0',
 '1431.0',
 '1427.0',
 '1364.0',
 '1314.0',
 '1293.0',
 '1170.0',
 '1162.0',
 '1304.0']

Provide your response here.

7. Using your existing functions, provide the top 10 recommended articles you would provide for the a new user below. You can test your function against our thoughts to make sure we are all on the same page with how we might make a recommendation.

new_user = '0.0'

# What would your recommendations be for this new user '0.0'?  As a new user, they have no observed articles.
# Provide a list of the top 10 article ids you would give to 
new_user_recs = recc # Your recommendations here

assert set(new_user_recs) == set(['1314.0','1429.0','1293.0','1427.0','1162.0','1364.0','1304.0','1170.0','1431.0','1330.0']), "Oops!  It makes sense that in this case we would want to recommend the most popular articles, because we don't know anything about these users."

print("That's right!  Nice job!")

That's right!  Nice job!

Part IV: Content Based Recommendations (EXTRA - NOT REQUIRED)

Another method we might use to make recommendations is to perform a ranking of the highest ranked articles associated with some term. You might consider content to be the doc_body, doc_description, or doc_full_name. There isn't one way to create a content based recommendation, especially considering that each of these columns hold content related information.

1. Use the function body below to create a content based recommender. Since there isn't one right answer for this recommendation tactic, no test functions are provided. Feel free to change the function inputs if you decide you want to try a method that requires more input values. The input values are currently set with one idea in mind that you may use to make content based recommendations. One additional idea is that you might want to choose the most popular recommendations that meet your 'content criteria', but again, there is a lot of flexibility in how you might make these recommendations.

This part is NOT REQUIRED to pass this project. However, you may choose to take this on as an extra way to show off your skills.

def make_content_recs():
    '''
    INPUT:
    
    OUTPUT:
    
    '''

2. Now that you have put together your content-based recommendation system, use the cell below to write a summary explaining how your content based recommender works. Do you see any possible improvements that could be made to your function? Is there anything novel about your content based recommender?

This part is NOT REQUIRED to pass this project. However, you may choose to take this on as an extra way to show off your skills.

Write an explanation of your content based recommendation system here.

3. Use your content-recommendation system to make recommendations for the below scenarios based on the comments. Again no tests are provided here, because there isn't one right answer that could be used to find these content based recommendations.

This part is NOT REQUIRED to pass this project. However, you may choose to take this on as an extra way to show off your skills.

# make recommendations for a brand new user


# make a recommendations for a user who only has interacted with article id '1427.0'

Part V: Matrix Factorization

In this part of the notebook, you will build use matrix factorization to make article recommendations to the users on the IBM Watson Studio platform.

1. You should have already created a user_item matrix above in question 1 of Part III above. This first question here will just require that you run the cells to get things set up for the rest of Part V of the notebook.

# Load the matrix here
user_item_matrix = pd.read_pickle('user_item_matrix.p')

# quick look at the matrix
user_item_matrix.head()

article_id	0.0	100.0	1000.0	1004.0	1006.0	1008.0	101.0	1014.0	1015.0	1016.0	...	977.0	98.0	981.0	984.0	985.0	986.0	990.0	993.0	996.0	997.0
user_id
1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	...	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	...	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	...	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
4	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	...	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	...	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

5 rows × 714 columns

2. In this situation, you can use Singular Value Decomposition from numpy on the user-item matrix. Use the cell to perform SVD, and explain why this is different than in the lesson.

# Perform SVD on the User-Item Matrix Here

u, s, vt = np.linalg.svd(user_item_matrix) # use the built in to get the three matrices

print(u.shape,s.shape,vt.shape)

(5149, 5149) (714,) (714, 714)

Provide your response here.

3. Now for the tricky part, how do we choose the number of latent features to use? Running the below cell, you can see that as the number of latent features increases, we obtain a lower error rate on making predictions for the 1 and 0 values in the user-item matrix. Run the cell below to get an idea of how the accuracy improves as we increase the number of latent features.

num_latent_feats = np.arange(10,700+10,20)
sum_errs = []

for k in num_latent_feats:
    # restructure with k latent features
    s_new, u_new, vt_new = np.diag(s[:k]), u[:, :k], vt[:k, :]
    
    # take dot product
    user_item_est = np.around(np.dot(np.dot(u_new, s_new), vt_new))
    
    # compute error for each prediction to actual value
    diffs = np.subtract(user_item_matrix, user_item_est)
    
    # total errors and keep track of them
    err = np.sum(np.sum(np.abs(diffs)))
    sum_errs.append(err)
    
    
plt.plot(num_latent_feats, 1 - np.array(sum_errs)/df.shape[0]);
plt.xlabel('Number of Latent Features');
plt.ylabel('Accuracy');
plt.title('Accuracy vs. Number of Latent Features');

4. From the above, we can't really be sure how many features to use, because simply having a better way to predict the 1's and 0's of the matrix doesn't exactly give us an indication of if we are able to make good recommendations. Instead, we might split our dataset into a training and test set of data, as shown in the cell below.

Use the code from question 3 to understand the impact on accuracy of the training and test sets of data with different numbers of latent features. Using the split below:

• How many users can we make predictions for in the test set?
• How many users are we not able to make predictions for because of the cold start problem?
• How many articles can we make predictions for in the test set?
• How many articles are we not able to make predictions for because of the cold start problem?

df_train = df.head(40000)
df_test = df.tail(5993)

def create_test_and_train_user_item(df_train, df_test):
    '''
    INPUT:
    df_train - training dataframe
    df_test - test dataframe
    
    OUTPUT:
    user_item_train - a user-item matrix of the training dataframe 
                      (unique users for each row and unique articles for each column)
    user_item_test - a user-item matrix of the testing dataframe 
                    (unique users for each row and unique articles for each column)
    test_idx - all of the test user ids
    test_arts - all of the test article ids
    
    '''
    # Your code here
    user_item_train = create_user_item_matrix(df_train)
    user_item_test = create_user_item_matrix(df_test)
    
    train_idx = set(user_item_train.index)
    test_idx = set(user_item_test.index)
    test_arts = set(user_item_test.columns)
    train_arts = set(user_item_train.columns)
    
    common_idx = list(train_idx.intersection(test_idx))
    common_cols = list(train_arts.intersection(test_arts))

    user_item_test = user_item_test.loc[common_idx, common_cols]
    
    return user_item_train, user_item_test, test_idx, test_arts

user_item_train, user_item_test, test_idx, test_arts = create_test_and_train_user_item(df_train, df_test)

# Replace the values in the dictionary below
a = 662 
b = 574 
c = 20 
d = 0 


sol_4_dict = {
    'How many users can we make predictions for in the test set?': c, 
    'How many users in the test set are we not able to make predictions for because of the cold start problem?': 662, 
    'How many movies can we make predictions for in the test set?': b,
    'How many movies in the test set are we not able to make predictions for because of the cold start problem?': 0
}

t.sol_4_test(sol_4_dict)

Awesome job!  That's right!  All of the test movies are in the training data, but there are only 20 test users that were also in the training set.  All of the other users that are in the test set we have no data on.  Therefore, we cannot make predictions for these users using SVD.

5. Now use the user_item_train dataset from above to find U, S, and V transpose using SVD. Then find the subset of rows in the user_item_test dataset that you can predict using this matrix decomposition with different numbers of latent features to see how many features makes sense to keep based on the accuracy on the test data. This will require combining what was done in questions 2 - 4.

Use the cells below to explore how well SVD works towards making predictions for recommendations on the test data.

# fit SVD on the user_item_train matrix
u_train, s_train, vt_train = np.linalg.svd(user_item_train) # fit svd similar to above then use the cells below

u_train.shape, s_train.shape, vt_train.shape

((4487, 4487), (714,), (714, 714))

common_idx = user_item_train.index.isin(test_idx)
common_arts = user_item_train.columns.isin(test_arts)
u_test = u_train[common_idx, :]
vt_test = vt_train[:, common_arts]

# Use these cells to see how well you can use the training 
# decomposition to predict on test data
num_latent_feats = np.arange(10,700+10,20)
sum_errs_test = []
sum_errs_train = []
for k in num_latent_feats:
    # restructure with k latent features
    s_train_new, u_train_new, vt_train_new = np.diag(s_train[:k]), u_train[:, :k], vt_train[:k, :]
    
    # take dot product
    user_item_train_preds = np.around(np.dot(np.dot(u_train_new, s_train_new), vt_train_new))
    
    user_item_est = np.around(np.dot(np.dot(u_test[:,:k], s_train_new), vt_test[:k,:]))
    
    # compute error for each prediction to actual value
    diffs_train = np.subtract(user_item_train, user_item_train_preds)
    diffs_test = np.subtract(user_item_test, user_item_est)

    # total errors and keep track of them
    err_train = np.sum(np.sum(np.abs(diffs_train)))
    err_train = accuracy_score(user_item_train.values.flatten(), user_item_train_preds.flatten())
    sum_errs_train.append(err_train)
    
    err_test = np.sum(np.sum(np.abs(diffs_test)))
    err_test = accuracy_score(user_item_test.values.flatten(), user_item_est.flatten())
    sum_errs_test.append(err_test)
    
    
plt.plot(num_latent_feats, sum_errs_train,label='train');
plt.plot(num_latent_feats, sum_errs_test,label='test');
plt.xlabel('Number of Latent Features');
plt.ylabel('Accuracy');
plt.title('Accuracy vs. Number of Latent Features');
plt.legend()
plt.show()

6. Use the cell below to comment on the results you found in the previous question. Given the circumstances of your results, discuss what you might do to determine if the recommendations you make with any of the above recommendation systems are an improvement to how users currently find articles?

Your response here.

As we can see, increasing the latent features causes the overfitting problem, to handle this issue we can perform cross validation to select optimal number of latent features. Also number of common users between train and test are less, so we need to use collaborative and content based content based recommendation system for bettter result.

Extras

Using your workbook, you could now save your recommendations for each user, develop a class to make new predictions and update your results, and make a flask app to deploy your results. These tasks are beyond what is required for this project. However, from what you learned in the lessons, you certainly capable of taking these tasks on to improve upon your work here!

Conclusion

Congratulations! You have reached the end of the Recommendations with IBM project!

Tip: Once you are satisfied with your work here, check over your report to make sure that it is satisfies all the areas of the rubric. You should also probably remove all of the "Tips" like this one so that the presentation is as polished as possible.

Directions to Submit

Before you submit your project, you need to create a .html or .pdf version of this notebook in the workspace here. To do that, run the code cell below. If it worked correctly, you should get a return code of 0, and you should see the generated .html file in the workspace directory (click on the orange Jupyter icon in the upper left).

Alternatively, you can download this report as .html via the File > Download as submenu, and then manually upload it into the workspace directory by clicking on the orange Jupyter icon in the upper left, then using the Upload button.

Once you've done this, you can submit your project by clicking on the "Submit Project" button in the lower right here. This will create and submit a zip file with this .ipynb doc and the .html or .pdf version you created. Congratulations!

from subprocess import call
call(['python', '-m', 'nbconvert', 'Recommendations_with_IBM.ipynb'])

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